Events at Physics |
Events During April, 2016
- Friday, April 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- New Satellite Galaxies of Our Milky Way, Keith Bechtol, UW - Madison, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
- Tuesday, April 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
- Toward an atlas of the physical internet, Paul Barford, UW Department of Computer Sciences
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280
- Lepton Jets from Radiating Dark Matter, Malte Buschmann, Fermilab
- Wednesday, April 6th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Clearly witnessing the quantum fluctuations of a mechanical oscillator, Dr. Ray Simmonds , NIST, Boulder
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM
- 'A Walk on the Warped Side: Searches for Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects in Advanced LIGO', Sarah Caudill, UW Milwaukee - Physics Dept
- SPECIAL TOPIC SEMINAR; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Intellectual Property, Commercialization of Innovation at UW-Madison, and an Introduction to D2P, Robert Pozner , Discovery to Product, UW Madison
- Friday, April 8th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Fermion masses and mixings in F-theory GUTs, Gianluca Zoccarato, Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Madrid
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger, Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
- Monday, April 11th
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Non-ergodicity in many body systems and the phase diagram of Josephson junction chains, Lev Ioffe, Rutgers
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
- Generation and Reconnection of Magnetic Field in Colliding Laser High Energy-Density Plasmas, Dr. Gennady Fiksel, University of Michigan
- Department Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, April 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Out-of -time-order correlators in solid state physics, Lara Faoro, CNRS
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
- Data centric computing in emerging nonvolatile memory technologies, Jing Li, Department of Computer Sciences
- Wednesday, April 13th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Dynamically corrected entangling gates for spin qubits , Jason Kestner, UMBC
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Friday, April 15th
- Department Meeting
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- D6-branes, axion monodromy inflation and moduli backreaction, Aitor Landete, Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Madrid
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Probing the Accelerating Universe with the Dark Energy Survey, Josh Frieman, Fermilab and the University of Chicago
- Monday, April 18th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Fast Reconnection and Self-Generated Turbulence Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability, Dr. Amitava Bhattacharjee,, PPPL
- Tuesday, April 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Semiconductors for Superconducting Qubits, Karl Petersson, University of Copenhagen
- Astronomy Colloquium, TUESDAY TALK;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall - A Philosophically-Informed Appraisal of the Schmidt-Sanduleak Law of Star Formation: "Not Even Wrong", Barry F. Madore, Carnegie Observatories and Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Chicago
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
- Novel-writing as a way to organize data, Russell Gardner, Jr., Freelance scholar
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Evading non-linearities: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at the linear point, Stefano Anselmi, Case Western Reserve University
- Wednesday, April 20th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Best Practices in Large Introductory Physics Courses at the University of Maryland, Rosemary Russ, UW - Madison Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- Thursday, April 21st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Quantum optics with ultra-cold atoms, Alex Kuzmich, University of Michigan
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Friday, April 22nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- First Results from Hitomi, Richard Mushotzky, University of Maryland/Goddard Space Flight Center
- Monday, April 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
- Simulation of energetic particle driven instabilities in 3D configurations, Dr. Donald Spong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Tuesday, April 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
- Green flexible electronics and the potential impact to our society and environment, Jack Zhenqiang, UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Simulating the neutrino sky: Cosmological probes of neutrino mass, JD Emberson, Argonne National Laboratory
- Wednesday, April 27th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 28th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Friday, April 29th
- Special Physics 208 Lecture; 8:50 am - 9:40 am; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- SHINE and Medical Radioisotopes, Greg Piefer, SHINE Medical Technologies
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- When Magnetic Field Lines Break, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University